Kanwal Sibal

The US has been engaging China at a high level in recent months to stabilise bilateral ties but seeks to set the terms for this....

What to make of a spate of articles in Western media and research papers by think tanks there about democratic 'backsliding' in India, just before...

The China challenge goes far beyond the western Pacific. The strengthened US-led alliances in the western Pacific have their more security-oriented deterrent role, while the...

India can easily retort by showing the mirror to the US, Germany and others about the problems these countries face at home. But there is...

Myanmar is as much a neighbour of India as other countries in our subcontinent. Whether India pays the same attention to Myanmar as it does...

India has now begun to engage more uninhibitedly with the Taliban leadership in Kabul, as was demonstrated by a March 7 visit of a delegation...

India’s foreign policy, as of other countries, is determined by certain permanent factors, for instance, its size, resources, geographical location and its neighbourhood. Other factors...

EU nations are pledging more lethal weapons to Ukraine while refusing to accept Moscow’s insistence that it harbors no intention to attack NATO into their...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent visit to UAE - his seventh one - has many dimensions. Given India's rise and the governance changes taking place...

Pakistan was already in a serious political, economic and social mess. The elections just held have deepened that mess. The functioning of all Pakistani institutions...

President Emmanuel Macron's visit to India as chief guest at our Republic Day celebrations had a ceremonial aspect, no doubt, but in relations between states...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was chief guest at France’s Bastille Day on July 14 this year. Six months later President Emmanuel Macron is chief guest...

Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar’s five-day official visit to Russia was timely and significant for more than one reason. India and Russia had held...

The governments of the US and India are under tremendous diplomatic pressure after Washington accused New Delhi of orchestrating a plot to murder US-based Khalistan...

The latest incident of pro-Khalistan activists demonstrating in front of our mission in London, climbing to the balcony on the frontage of the building and...

The stakes of all sides in the Ukraine conflict have risen with recent developments. President Biden’s dramatic visit to Kyiv ups the ante. NATO is...

The 14th anniversary of the gruesome Mumbai terror attacks has gone by without its perpetrators being brought to justice. Those massacred belonged to many nationalities,...

External Affairs Minister’s Jaishankar’s visit to Moscow on November 7-8 for consultations with Foreign Minister Lavrov and a meeting of the Inter-Governmental Commission on Trade,...

The outcome of the 17th G20 summit level meeting on 15-16 November at Bali will be of vital interest to India as it takes over...

As expected, Xi Jinping has got a third term as China’s leader. With the Constitutional amendments making him and his Thought the core of the...

In his address at the IIT Mumbai on October 19, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres chose to slam India on democracy and human rights issues....

India continues to do tight rope walking on the Ukraine conflict in the United Nations. It abstained again on October 12 in the UN General...

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock’s statement that Germany has a “role and responsibility” with regard to the situation in Kashmir and supports “intensively” UN intervention...

If western governments are ready to accommodate India by balancing their longer term interest in keeping it within their “democratic” fold with their shorter term...

The India-US 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue on April 11, 2022 no doubt carried the momentum of bilateral ties forward. But the timing was not the most...

India has to take a position on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine not as a democracy but based on its national interest, just as the West...

Pax Americana would mean peace and order and prosperous stability across the world under America’s hegemony. That never really existed in full and exists even...

The Ukraine crisis reflects the West’s failure to establish durable structures of peace and security in Europe after the end of the Cold War and...

At those heights where the earth touches the sky The wind blows like a flurry of sharp spears That pierce the flesh without drawing blood...

Russophobia in America has reached such levels that countries like India have become vulnerable to serious collateral damage as a consequence. US-Russia relations have got...

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's speech on October 18 at a Washington DC-based think tank is important as it tells us how the US views...

Nawaz Sharif’s ouster is surprising. And not so surprising, because his position had earlier been jolted by the massive ‘dharnas’ orchestrated by Imran Khan, with...

China has been working to undermine India’s position from within by courting business, academic and media lobbies that question the wisdom of government’s decision on...

China's repeated blocking of India's moves in the 1267 United Nations sanctions committee to include leaders of Pakistan's jihadi organizations perpetrating terrorist attacks against India reveals both...

The pro-US lobby in India prefers to see in Prime Minister Modi’s move to invite President Obama an inclination to strategically lean towards the US,...

Prime Minister Modi extended his hand of friendship to Pakistan immediately after his electoral triumph by inviting Nawaz Sharif to his swearing-in ceremony and agreeing...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s US visit presented him with a difficult challenge. At the rhetorical level, projecting the India-US relationship as between two democracies is...

If the media coverage in India of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s US visit and the adulation with which the Indian-American community greeted him in New...

Today, the India-US relationship is a transformed one with the change in Indian thinking about America being the most important element. Being ‘pro-American’ is not...

President Xi Jinping's visit to India produced less than the expected results, despite favourable conditions for a “re-set” of India-China relations being in place. Prime...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is receiving the visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping in Ahmedabad on the former’s birthday. If symbolism mirrored reality, then we should...

Prime Minister Modi’s just concluded visit to Japan has been successful on various counts. Politically, the India-Japan relationship has been solidified; economically, prospects of major...

The transformation of India-Australia relations in the last decade has been remarkable. We have moved rapidly from a lack of empathy to recognition that our...

The Pakistan high commissioner seriously transgressed diplomatic norms in meeting the Kashmiri secessionists after being advised against it by the foreign secretary. Accredited envoys do...

We have to draw some hard lessons from the latest drama in India-Pakistan relations. If we do not, we will continue being beset with unmet...

If Modi has not revealed his hand yet on domestic issues and his silence on rising controversies is puzzling and disappointing many, his personal imprint...

Not too much was expected from the just-concluded India-US strategic dialogue and not too much has resulted. Its importance lay in resuming and creating a...

India’s relations with the United States of America need to be put back on track. The relationship has lost steam in the recent months with...

In India, we need to separate our reactions to the human dimension of the tragic downing of the Malaysian passenger plane over Ukrainian airspace by...

Current developments in Iraq expose further the failure of US policies in West Asia. With all the resources at its command, of information, analysis and...